Buckeye searches for the grasses that just received a slurp of rain under those mammatus clouds. He’s already taken advantage of the damp ground to try to deter the bugs, which also were taking advantage of the humidity to come out in force!
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Happy Fourth of July! Not a splash-of-color image, but I hope it’s one that invokes some of the independence and freedom this country was founded upon.
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 
Happy Fourth of July, TJ! Wishing you and us all liberty, independence and happiness! And is it just me or do those clouds looks like they plan to bring some lovely rain to us? Better than fireworks!
Those particular clouds were *after*-rain clouds, but they HAD brought rain (to some areas of Disappointment Valley). 🙂 And I will fully agree about nature’s fireworks … and not only on the Fourth of July! 😉
Buckeye is looking good with his lovely mud smears! Happy 4th to all of us and may freedom always reign.
They are quick to find that mud, and I don’t blame them; the gnats and flies are OUT!